> Back in the day I bought it was called a word processor. Computers were commandor 64, toys.
> To my recollection, the first word processors I saw was IBM, which were nothing more than an electric typewriter with a built in memory. Mine had a big 7k memory. geo
George, if your word processor had a Ctrl key, as you say it did, it was a computer. A computer dedicated to word processing, to be sure, but a computer nonetheless running some sort of program. The memory typewriters, on the other hand, were neither computers nor word processors since they didn't run a program and weren't capable of being programmed. (A control key would serve no purpose on a memory typewriter; it is an artifact from early computer terminals and teletypewriters which needed to create special "control" characters, hence the name.)
The earliest true word processors were mainframe or minicomputer-based systems and quite expensive. When minicomputers with word processing programs arrived (such as the IBM PC with Wordstar), the older systems were quickly supplanted.
BTW, I don't know why you want to denigrate early personal computers like the Commodore 64. Yes, they were mostly used as toys, but they were quite capable computers for their day, and stand up well when you consider their features with those of modern PCs.
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